‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Has Found Its Mary Jane

Aside from a few details – like the Lizard being the villain instead of Green Goblin, Emma Stone >>>>>>>>>>> Kirsten Dunst and Macho Man Randy Savage – I didn’t see much of a difference between the 2002 Spider-Man film and this year’s The Amazing Spider-Man. That’s probably because Columbia Pictures rushed this reboot to theaters so Marvel didn’t reclaim the rights to the franchise and add Spidey to The Avengers, but there might be a really small chance that Columbia just wanted to try telling the same story again. Hopefully with less singing this time.

But unlike the last Spidey trilogy, which featured Bryce Dallas Howard as Gwen Stacy in the third installment, the Amazing version started off with Peter Parker’s original love interest, played by Stone. For the sequel, we’ll once again be introduced to Mary Jane Watson so she can start her whole cat fight with Gwen again. Who’ll play MJ? Columbia really really really wants Shailene Woodley. Hooray, star power.

Woodley has been offered the role of Mary Jane Watson, the perennial red-headed love interest of Pater Parker in the Spider-Man comics. The role was previously played by Kirsten Dunst in the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man trilogy.

Columbia just closed deals with Marc Webb to return to the director’s chair after this summer’s web-head reboot, Amazing Spider-Man, grossed $752 million worldwide. The studio also closed deals with Garfield to reprise the title role and Emma Stone to return as Gwen Stacy. (Via THR)

I didn’t care for The Amazing Spider-Man at all, as I thought it was a sloppy and lazy retelling of the 2002 film, complete with the dragged out murder of Peter’s uncle [ditto -Vince]. But it had its moments, and there’s at least room for the story to improve in the sequel. The problem, though, is that readers of Spider-Man comics all know that things don’t ever end up well for Gwen in any storylines. That’s about as specific as I can be without spoilers.

So basically what we have is just a plain, old love triangle, and that’s really boring. What I’d like to suggest as an alternative, since we’re already taking liberties with the characters – like the Lizard killing Gwen’s dad instead of the Green Goblin Dr. Octopus doing it – how about we turn Gwen into the Black Cat? Think about it, Columbia, because I think there are a few million dudes and bros agreeing with me right now.

This is like when I go to the store to buy bread and there are 10 different breads to choose from but yet they are all kind of the same (white, honey wheat, oatnut, etc). At the end of the day it’s not the bread that makes the sammich it’s the stuff in between.

I do appreciate me some fine bread. Locally baked if possible (thank you San Francisco for that).

Let me re-phrase my bread comparison.

These chicks all looks the same and seem vaguely uninteresting other than boobs. So it’s kind of like looking at the bread aisle and realizing they are all interchangeable and equally serve the same function with the same amount of nutritional value. What matters more with the Spider Man movies are the writing/directing and not the generic boob wielder.

I don’t think there is much of a chance of a getting an actress that would sit in the “artisan bread” end cap.

Mhm okay. Didn’t know how you guys are thinking here.
But it’s a fact that she looks normally much better than in this picture. And you could have taken two “normal” pictures. But okay. Your site, your rules.

Shailene Woodley si quite possibly even more of a Fugmonster than ol’ Snaggletooth. List, Sony – Mary Jane Watson is supposed to be a Model. Stop picking Moon-faced, snaggletoothed, Pedobear targets and hire an Attracive women who is supposed to be out of Parker’s league. This chick looks like she’s a quick chat and a sixer of Mike’s HArd Lemonade away from an appearance on Dateline, NBC.

“Moon-faced?” What kind of fucking description/put-down is that? And “MJ is supposed to be a model”, since “models” don’t look different and they all look the exact same. Throw that girl into panties and a bra and you could put her in Victoria’s Secret catalog and you’d never think twice. So even if your vague implication of how models should apparently look like one common thing, this girl would fit into it just fine.

Comic book movie loving, punk rock band guitar playing, computer and video game nerding, White Irish (formerly)Catholic guy from the same Boston neighborhood and general age range as the Wahlberg brothers.

She’s not a model but she’s cute but its all fucking retarded anyway because this whole spiderman bs needs to go away. A middle schooler could tell that Sony should’ve sold it back to Marvel. These time limited deals suck because it just forces the studios to recycle this crap into the ground even faster, ruining the damn property in the process anyways. Sony needs to scrap this shit and do the right thing: Blackmail the bejeezus out of Marvel/Disney’s deep ass pockets and sell the characters back. Looking at you too Fox.

Are we going with the Ultimate-y version where Mary Jane’s less supermodel and more brain? Because I say go whole hog then, kill off Peter Parker and replace him with Miles Morales. Just so we can get some real options.